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There are two issues with EVs in the winter. The first is the battery itself - low temperature slows down chemistry - that's a matter of physics so while better engineering will improve things over time, it's unlikely they will ever be able to eliminate the performance difference between hot and cold completely. If you pay attention your gasoline car gets worse fuel economy in the winter as well though the effect in an IC engine is small by comparison. The other difference in an EV is lack of waste engine heat available to heat the vehicle interior, and a car going down the road fast loses a lot of heat on a cold day and that has to be made up from the battery. You can do that more efficiently with a heat pump than with low tech resistance heaters, but that adds cost and complexity to the vehicle. Some EVs have them, IIRC Ford decided they weren't worth it on the E-Mustang. In any case there is no way around the need to heat the vehicle interior somehow (and cool it in the summer but that is a smaller task) and that will cost part of the battery charge. They can make the heating system more efficient but that extra requirement won't go away. I can imagine we will see some new types of insulating windshield glass.

Well, 76 WAR from Knebel, Adames, Granderson (after the trade) and Suarez say "Hi" Cabrera was a steal, but mostly because the Marlins weren't going to pay him. Letting Granderson go would still have been a brilliant trade if they hadn't been fool enough to lose Scherzer and Jackson hadn't gotten old fast.

LOL - My BIL was an engineer who should have known better, but he bought a Pacer - it turned out pretty badly and we rode him about it mercilessly. My dad bought a couple of AMCs also - mostly he didn't care about driving and wasn't willing to spend much on a vehicle for himself - mom got the nicer cars. But there was a terrible straight 6 Hornet (basically a Gremlin with a trunk) with manual steering that had to be about 10 turns lock-to-lock, and before that an Ambassador, which actually was pretty nice as long as you drove it like someone's grandmother.

GM tried some style experiments that didn't go well beside the Aztec. The original Silhouette took the wedge to where it was almost impossible to drive.

so the pic on twitter does appear on CNNs website of the story, nor does it carry a clarifying caption like "James McCain in 20XX at such a place" (where-ever or whenever he was speaking in the pic. Just another example of how sloppy CNN is.

He enlisted as a grunt. Didn't want to go to college/ROTC or otherwise follow the family legacy to Annapolis. Or maybe he was just a screw-up in HS and didn't have the choice. 🤷‍♀️

Maybe he’s learned things since he went to intel that cause him to judge the stakes as higher.

File photo? Story said he’d been serving 17 yrs but was just commissioned in ‘22 when he went to intel, so he was apparently a long time NCO.

that's a pretty fair suggestion. Credit something like an extra two days for every 100 innings at C.

for which team?

To me the more interesting thing than the law involved was the widow's apparent change of heart. I just wonder if it's a situation where if Trump had had a little more personal grace and extended himself to and better recognized the other victims, he might have saved himself defending one more suit.

Oddly enough to say given the plaudits he has gotten, the character in Oppenheimer that didn't work for me was Downey. I couldn't get past something about his portrayal. I guess I felt like he was doing a stage style performance in a film. It was good acting, but the wrong acting - a little too much maybe.

This is probably pretty accurate. The one place where I think the SS did clearly miss was not establishing a live communication link with the local command post. Trump could have been taken off the stage well before a shot was fired if the locals could have communicated with his SS team as soon as they had ID'd the presence of the armed threat. That was a ridiculous level of breakdown given today's communications tech.

It's always going to be a matter of degree. In every event the SS and the other security team members will have a list of things they would *like* the candidate to do and the candidate will agree to some and reject others ( for instance you know SS would always *like* the candidate to stand behind a bullet proof screen, no candidate ever will.) So every event is a compromise with a line drawn somewhere on that list that defines a spectrum from overkill security to candidate negligence. So the area between is where Comperatore's lawyers have to try and make a case.

LOL - there is no more dangerous ground to be on in a US corporation after a project goes south than to have been right about something your bosses turned out to be wrong about..... If they all get fired, you probably get caught in the backwash too, if they don't, you will likely become the unforgiven and shown the door at the survivors' earliest convenience. Your best shot is attempt a lateral move into a different group ASAP!

Even here you run into the Constitutional issue since he is their boss and at least theoretically is the source of the authority of all the rules they operate under other than legislation that explicitly binds a president's actions, and even in these cases the SCOTUS may find for a president if he challenges it. e.g. the Mar-a-Lago case wouldn't exist if Trump could have shown he declassified the docs before he took them because he had the authority to do it. It's a powerful office, the Founders never imagined it had to made idiot proof.

They don't have any legal authority to prevent their protectee from doing anything. If they won't take advice, (and since when does Trump accept advice from anyone?) they just have to salute and do the best they can.

If they can show the campaign took actions that ignored SS advice or acted in ways that subverted security efforts in place I suppose they would have a cause of action. As practical matter to sue the SS under the Fed Tort Claims Act I think you have to prove actual negligence and in the kind of multi-model failure to communicate situations like this was, explicit negligence might be a hard standard to meet, not to mention that SS can shield its procedures under security classification etc. So the lawyers must think the bar to show partial liability on the part of the campaign is a better bet.

I'd guess when they made the schedule they wanted to make sure to capture a high gate day on the holiday but SD has drawn well enough it didn't make that much difference. They had 45K yesterday but are averaging 40K anyway.

Does the point finally come when the only fair thing to do is send in a Seal team and extract Maduro to Gitmo? Does the rest of the world have some kind of obligation to save the well being of the population of what was once close to a 1st world country from being completely destroyed? Same argument as Iraq I suppose, but does it make a difference that Maduro's junta is still far less well organized or funded than the Baathists or even Isis? Not easy questions.

LOL - I loved Inception. I thought Oppenheimer was very good but occasionally it seem to hit the wrong note tone wise. Came into the middle of Tenet one night and just had to give up....Though I suppose that would have been true of Inception as well. My daughter loved Dark Knight but I pretty much dislike all superhero/super villain movies.

the team mostly looks homer crazy - they need to reign it in and just get some hits. Jace Jung on a 1 for 15. Keith was 0 for 18 before the single in the 9th.

it's getting to where that isn't uncommon either.

100 mph off the bat but wrong inclination

I think I hear the fat lady singing....